[sammyg2]

I haven't played seriously in over 20 years, and I probably haven't played more than a few chords for the past 15 years, but I'm thinking of picking it up again.
A couple of the guys I work with aren't half bad and they keep saying I should get an axe and play along.
So .................... I go to ebay and check out the prices for the guitars I used to have, OMFG!
Almost $4000 for a left-handed sunburst les paul deluxe similar to the one I sold for $450 in the early 80's, over $1.5k for a martin acoustic like the one I traded for a surfboard.
I can't believe the prices, even relatively cheap import strats are more than I paid for a REAL pre-CBS strat in the late 70's.

I really can't see paying big bucks for a decent instrument when I may lose interest again.
I figure I'll prolly just get a cheap used left-handed acoustic and pluck around with it for a while until I'm sure I'm going to get serious again, then buy something nice. There are a few on ebay i can get for under $100 but who's to say the action is any good? Prolly a fret-buzzmonster or the action is so high I'd get cramps trying to do a bar chord.

Maybe I'll hit the local pawn shops or something ....